It is the last day of 2011 and we at PaGaLGuY are certain that you are in no mood to read any heavy stuff. We dont want placements and exam errors to come in the way of your New Year plans either. So, here is something to add some cheer to your party mood — something we encounter everytime we file an article for the PaGaLGuY website. Before uploading the article, we run a spell check and the choice of words that sometimes come up often leave us in splits. Below are a few spell check options we often encounter, either in Microsoft Word and or in an iPhone, which has a predictive text option for messaging and emailing functions.
Here comes the first blooper — Ahmedabad, is in the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad keeps converting to Headband in the Word spell check.
Though Calcutta remains unchanged, Kolkata has its versions. In some places the spell checker throws up Kola or Kalkaske while in an iPhone, by the time you type Kolk, you get Loll.
Ranchi, as in IIM Ranchi, is Raunchy and Ranch in MS Word, and Rohtak (as in IIM Rohtak) is Retake; in other spell checkers Rohtak becomes Rhoda. IIM Raipur becomes Reaper and Rapier in Word but in an iPhone, as soon as you type Raip you get Rail and Raipu gets you Rainy. Among the other newer IIMs, Trichy throws Tricky as an option everywhere while Kashipur becomes Kinship and Katipo.
More strange ones are; FMS (Faculty of Management Studies), which reads as DNA in an iPhone and ISB (Indian School of Business) which reads as USB. SP Jain, on the other hand is Spain while XIMB (Xavier Institute of Management, Bhuvaneshwar) becomes Comb!
IIM Udaipur throws up Diaper, Damper and Dapper and IIFT (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade) becomes Gift, Rift, Lift and IDIOT. In an iPhone, by the time you type Udai, you get USA. Mumbai remains Mumbai in Word but an iPhone gives you Numb for Mumbai. Shillong as part of IIM Shillong becomes Shilling while IIM Indore becomes Indoor. Indira as in Indira Institute of Management is India and Balaji is Balanic. Funnily, in a Nokia E-6, Udaipur becomes Jaipur and SP Jain is Special Jain. While Symbiosis is Symbiotic and DTE is Date, IIT is just IT and Somaiya in KJ Somaiya becomes Somalia.
While in Word, a spell check is done only after an article is complete and ready for upload, in an iPhone and other phones where predictive text is available, options are shown while typing the word. For instance Ko of Kolkata become Jo and and Bangal of Bangalore becomes Banal. If NITIE is written as Nitie, you get Motor and just Ni gives No. Type IIF of IIFT and you get Kid while Ro of Rohtak gets To.
For Prometic, if you type Prome, it becomes Prone, for Promet it is Primer and for Prometr it becomes Printer. Nat of National becomes Bat and Madh of Madhya Pradesh is Mash. For some reason, Jamshedpur and Hyderabad remain the same on the iPhone.
Realise our plight when everytime we want to write PaGalGuY, we get Paraguay and just Pag becomes Pay. Now you know the next time you see an IIM Headbad or IIM Tricky, whom to blame.